From the library to you, people of 12 to 18 years! A way of having more fun. A way of being less bored. Challenges to take. And the best part: rewards along the way. We offer the Teens Summer Reading Challenge to you!

**Round of applause**

It’s actually reallllly simple. Visit the library between June 17 and August 17 to sign up. From the following day, tell us about what you are reading to get a ballot for our prize basket.

You’ll get a flyer with special challenges. Complete them and tell us about it. When you complete 5 challenges, you get to play Plinko for a chance to win instant prizes. Plinko can be played once a week only.

Try to guess who is our weekly featured detective to win an awesome basket! The contest runs through May 1st to 31st, with a new character every week. We have a bulletin board just for teens, in front of the Reader’s advisory desk, with four clues to help you find out who is our mysterious character. You could also fill an electronic ballot on the library website, here.

We will also have a Mystery night on May 17th for ages 14 and up. Come and try to figure out which suspect stole the painting! You could win 2 tickets for a fun Escape Room experience at Breakout Belleville!

You can also get ballots by checking out Mystery books. There is reading suggestions here.

Are you up to the Challenge? Between June 25th – August 18th, come to the library to pick up a sheet of weekly reading challenges. For each challenge you complete, fill out a ballot for a change to win an awesome gift package!

Earn extra ballots for each book you read this summer. Come to the reader’s Advisory desk to pick up and submit your ballots.

Teen Cover Art Contest:

Do you think you can design better cover art for your favourite book? Show us! Teens ages 12-18 can design a new cover for any book they choose. Entries will be displayed side-by-side with the published cover art.

Submission Dates: Aug. 15th – 27th.

Entries will be displayed in the corridor of the John M. Parrott Art Gallery September 5-17.

For those of you that have been enjoying your summer vacation don’t worry, you still have time to enter our Fan Art Contest! We have extended our due date! All entry’s are now due on Saturday August 29th, 2015. So if you are a teen between 12 – 18 and would like to enter you still have time!

A huge thank you for all the entry’s that have already been dropped off! We have been getting some great pieces of art from Doctor Who to Frozen!

Just a reminder:

Art work can be framed or unframed and has to be one 2D medium item of fan art per person.